UV triggers the synthesis of the widely distributed secondary lichen compound usnic acid

By M. McEvoy, L. Nybakken, K. Solhaug, Y. Gauslaa. Mycological progress, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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• Lecanoric acid, a secondary lichen substance with antioxidant properties from Umbilicaria antarctica in maritime Antarctica (King George Island) (2009, background): “In addition to free radical scavenging activity, lecanoric acid may have photoprotection function of lichen symbionts in polar region as demonstrated by McEvoy et al. (2006).”
• 15 The Symbiotic Phenotype of Lichen-Forming Ascomycetes and Their Endo- and Epibionts (2012, background): “2012; for reviews, see Purvis and Pawlik-Skowrońska 2008), and (3) absorption of UV-B light, secondary product biosynthesis being enhanced by seasonally or experimentally elevated UV-B irradiation (Bjerke et al. 2002, 2005; Buffoni Hall et al. 2002; Solhaug et al. 2003; Huneck et al. 2004; Nybakken ”